Category: Surveys

Recently it was announced that Instant Cash Sweepstakes, the original site created by Umongous before they came out with the sister site PaidViewPoint, has been shut down.

They’re putting more focus into PaidViewPoint now. While ICS was pretty fun, especially at first, PaidViewPoint is definitely a better survey site overall so I’m personally glad to see more focus being put into it.

PaidViewPoint makes surveys easy and basic to go through, and you get paid quickly. It’s so much better than other survey sites… and even good on mobile browsers.

I was surprised to discover today that PaidViewPoint has updated their payment methods.

You could always cash out at $15 via PayPal, but now they’ve added Amazon and Wal-Mart gift cards as options as well. I have payment proof for this as well, having tried the Amazon method. I received payment nearly instantly in this case which was fantastic.

PaidViewPoint pays you for short, fun surveys without those annoying 45 minute pre-screeners, where those other guys just drop you off with a “Sorry, maybe next time!” message. I’ve been with PVP for years and they’re fantastic.

To give you a quick rundown on these two sites (owned by the same company):

Instant Cash Sweepstakes (ICS) is a survey site in which you can win random amounts of money in your surveys. Most of the surveys are fun and user-made, with some business surveys tossed in. There are also drawings every 4 hours and every 24 hours through various other methods.

PaidViewpoint (PVP) provides surveys designated by businesses to put out their questions to get answered and you get paid (no winning/chance/luck) for each survey.

You may get the idea that these survey sites aren’t like the others where you do a survey for an hour, then suddenly you find that you’re not qualified and you get $0. No, with these sites you get short surveys that are either fun or straight to the point.